Almond isn't interested in "The Big Three" (Nestlé, Hershey's and Mars). But there are also enough facts to draw readers' attention away from the unnaturally fanatical Almond and onto the subject at hand. There are enough anecdotes from Almond's lifelong fixation that readers will feel as if they know him (about halfway through the book, when Almond is visiting a factory and a marketing director offers him a taste of a coconut treat, readers will know why he tells her, "I'm really kind of full"-he hates coconut).
Almond's tribute falls somewhere between Hilary Liftin's decidedly personal Candy and MeĪnd Tim Richardson's almost scholarly Sweets: A History of Candy And what's a Boston College creative writing teacher to do when he can't get M&Ms, Clark Bars and Bottle Caps off his mind? Write a book on candy, of course. The appropriately named Almond goes beyond candy obsession to enter the realm of "freakdom." Right up front, he divulges that he has eaten a piece of candy "every single day of his entire life," "thinks about candy at least once an hour" and "has between three and seven pounds of candy in his house at all times." Indeed, Almond's fascination is no mere hobby-it's taken over his life.
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